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Publication details [#25576]

Waugh, Linda R. 1994. Degrees of iconicity in the lexicon. Journal of Pragmatics 22 (1) : 55–70.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

iconicity | lexicon | polysemy

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study on diagrammatic iconicity in the English lexicon, shows that for the majority the specific sounds used to form a word contain cues about its meaning. These cues however are only partial as polysemy within and across lexemes constitues a major constraint.